Just got back from North Queensland... no such law was ever quoted by our liveaboard crew... and since twice one of our ding-a-ling divers surfaced with NO air in his tank (zip , zero, nada)... I'd say there is no such law. He wasn't arrested, he didn't get a fine, hell - he didn't even get lectured. The captain did make the comment that in America - one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ball game... but I think he had been singing the song while drinking.
Had this happened in America our dive buddy probably could have hired Johnny Cochran and sued for being threatened by a foreign (Aussie) terrorist... as my good friend Dong King would say... "Only in America."
K
Had this happened in America our dive buddy probably could have hired Johnny Cochran and sued for being threatened by a foreign (Aussie) terrorist... as my good friend Dong King would say... "Only in America."
K
gregseto:I got certified in Australia this summer, but am about to go on my first CA dive in a few days. I have a quick question regarding surfacing procedures;
In Queensland, it is apparently ILLEGAL to surface with less than 50 bar in the tank (an AL80 capacitiy is typically 200 bar, so 50 is a good chunk of air), and I was taught to start heading up with about 70. How does this equait to PSI? I know that the same AL80's hold 3000 psi, so should I be surfaced with 1/4 of that (750 psi) or is that just some QLD specific regulation rather than a guideline?
Thanks, and if there has been a thread about this in the past, please advise; I didn't run across any.